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Quintiq solving world’s most complex planning & scheduling puzzles

Uri Schlafrig

Sr. Business Consultant

Kevin Carlyon

Sr. Sales Executive

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Agenda

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Quintiq’s vision on solving world’s most complex planning puzzles

Quintiq demo showing a common workforce planning challenge

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Quintiq’s vision on solving world’s most complex planning puzzles

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Workforce

Production

Transportation

One technology

for all your planning puzzles

Quintiq founding vision

Customers that use

Quintiq

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What type of airport planning puzzles do we solve?

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What makes airport planning puzzles so complex?

Safety regulations SLAs Fluctuating traffic volumes

Delays Daily peaks in demand

Workforce agreements

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

How many planning possibilities?

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1

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An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

3,628,800

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• IBM Sequoia clocking in at 16.32 petaflops.

• How long does a brute force approach take ?

An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

Take the Fastest Computer

On the planet

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That would actually take 0.00000000002 seconds

[under previously explained totally unrealistic assumptions]

An example of a ‘simple’ puzzle

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Knowing this, how long do you think

it would take for 25 and 32 people

respectively?

A bit more complex example of a planning puzzle

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25 People = 1 year

6.2 * 10^23 solutions

32 People = 16 billion years

8.2 * 10^33 solutions

3 times the age of the earth

(4.59 billion years)

16 billion years is

A bit more complex example of a planning puzzle

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The power of world-class optimization

Quintiq R&D

Optimization technology

Experience& knowledge

Performance

122 world records

Optimization technology

feedback

Optimization Center

Transavia Improved interface

usage by

10%

KLM Catering staff cost

reduction by

15%

LSG Skychefs vans reduced by

35%

G4S guarding Improved employee

Utilization by

20%

Real results

5% – 20% improvement for nearly every customer

Benchmarks Logistics, Workforce, Production

Experience& knowledge

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Time Logic

Flexible Interface

Algorithms

Sequence Planning

Propagator

Optimization

Assignment Planning

Logistics

Metal & Manufacturing

Workforce

Integration

The building blocks we use to solve your planning puzzle

Optimization

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Quintiq demo showing a common workforce planning challenge

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Supporting all planning decisions in one solution

Strategic planning

Tactical planning

Operational planning

Execution

(Yearly/years ahead)

(Monthly/months ahead)

(Weekly/days ahead)

(Daily/hours ahead)

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Demo

Shift requirements

creation

Staff planning

Task scheduling

Manage last- minute

changes

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Summary

Empowers planners to quickly balance

different goals through visualization,

collaboration and interaction.

Single integrated solution across the

entire value chain and all time horizons.

Includes algorithms to optimize KPIs and

propagate the effect of decisions.